Northeast Ohio’s latest conveyor-belt sushi restaurant is just days away from its grand opening. Funshi Sushi, Ramen and Boba will open its newest restaurant, Funshi Revolving Sushi at 35918 Detroit Road in Avon, on Monday, Sept. 29. Funshi opened its first restaurant in Rocky River earlier this year, but this is an entirely new concept for the homegrown restaurant, says Christine Xiao, partner and manager.
“We are a family business,” explains Xiao. “We have been in the sushi industry for 20 years with Hibachi Sushi, but we created a new concept – something fun, you know?”
For its latest act, Funshi has devised a space-age, interactive dining concept that features a conveyor belt, train track and robot servers. Items like edamame, seaweed salad, sashimi, sushi and sushi rolls will glide through the restaurant on the conveyor belt for diners to grab at will. Hot foods like ramen, rice bowls and stir-fries can be ordered on tabletop e-menus. Those items will be delivered directly to the table via the train. Drinks like boba, fruit teas and smoothies are transported to diners by robot servers.
Unlike other conveyor-belt sushi restaurants, which use different colored plates to designate prices, all of the conveyor-belt items will be a single price, adds Xiao.
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“We will have more sushi options than other places around here,” she says. “And we will have the same price for any plate you want.”
There will be two plate colors, she clarifies, white and black, a system that lets diners easily distinguish between raw and cooked items.
Following quickly on the heels of the Avon restaurant is a second location in Beachwood, specifically the former Bomba Tacos space at the corner of Cedar and Richmond (2101 Richmond Rd.). That restaurant is on pace to open in November, according to Xiao.
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